Volunteering & Shadowing

[You]

I keep seeing "shadowing." What does it mean? I'm guessing it is some form of volunteering??? Is there any difference between volunteering and shadowing?

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[aranjuez]

Shadowing, as I understand it (and as I did it) is when you go to a dentist's office and follow them around all day to see what kinds of things they do, e.g. procedures on patients.

Volunteering can range, I suppose. My volunteering hours were geared towards a dental clinic, where I would rotate between different departments; did paperwork, cleaning of instruments, interacting with patients and the student dentists.

As far as I can gather, it's much more important to "shadow" than to "volunteer."

aranjuez

 

[celeron_266]

i guess shadowing it simply you go there and watch...volunteering is you go there and work